PHOENIX-The Legislature refused to fund a memorial for the Tucson shooting victims, columnist E.J. Montini says, so now it needs your donations to make it happen.
Montini: How you can honor Tucson shooting victims (AZCentral.com)
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Jan. 8th Memorial Foundation continue to search for funding to get memorial built (KVOA.com)
TUCSON-January 8th Memorial Foundation continues to look for funding for building the memorial
January 8th Memorial Foundation plans to finish campaign (KVOA.com)
TUCSON – The January 8th Memorial Foundation is getting closer to breaking ground on a permanent memorial Downtown.
On January 8, 2011 a gunman killed 6 people and wounded 13 others outside a Northwest Side grocery store. Ron Barber almost bled to death. Now he is fighting for a permanent memorial.
6 years later, memorial for Giffords mass shooting struggles (HoustonChronicle.com)
PHOENIX (AP) — Survivors of the mass shooting that left former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords severely wounded are pleading with the public to help pay for a long-planned memorial after state funding fell through during this year’s session of the Arizona Legislature.
January 8th Memorial moves ahead without state funding (KGUN9.com)
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) – The January 8th shooting touched lives far beyond the six killed and 13 wounded that day. State lawmakers refused to devote two and a half million dollars to build the memorial but organizers see a way to keep going. Organizers are reaching out for more donations to keep the memorial alive. There’s a lot of history in Tucson’s old courthouse plaza. There are plans to put a memorial to the January 8th shooting victims there to join the history in that spot. State lawmakers decided not to kick in funding to help make that memorial happen. But organizers are confident it will happen just the same.